Month: January 2014
Photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer travelled to the world’s most volatile and controversial borders for his photographic survey Confrontier, recently profiled by Wired. With a panoramic film camera, Wiedenhöfer documented the view of an illegal Israeli settlement in Westbank as seen over the wall separating it from a Palestinian refugee camp. He photographed the construction site of the border fence between […]
Here’s a fun new clip from CineFix “gamifying” Pulp Fiction as a 8-bit NES-inspired arcade action game. It’s got all the key scenes — from the shoot-out with Honey Bunny and Pumpkin to Vincent and Mia dancing to bang bang bang bang bang bang, blood. They’ve also done Hunger Games, The Dark Knight, The Shinning and more, but I could actually play this one […]
Her (2013) Is a film about an OS AI girlfriend, but u will mostly look at Joaquin Phoenix’s face feeling things, but is A Perfect Film I can’t can’t sorry ｡･ﾟﾟ･STILL FULL OF SO MANY COMPLEX ･ﾟﾟ･FEELS･ﾟﾟ･ & ｡･ﾟﾟ･THINKS｡･ﾟﾟ･ RIGHT NOW ｡･ﾟﾟ･(இ‸இﾟ)･ﾟﾟ･｡ Spike Jonze u win, even forgive u 4 the Her fashion line at OP FUTURE-CHARACTER-WORLD AUTHENTICITY: 4.5 out of 5.0 […]
Even though the polar vortex is finally dissipating, the Hudson River is icy today. It’s not completely frozen — more of a chunky soup texture. Still, that’s fairly unusual. The surface of the Hudson River previously only froze completely in 1821, 1780 and 1720. We went over to check it out… so you don’t have to. (Photos: […]
In a battle of the acronyms, the Insane Clown Posse (ICP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are teaming up to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In 2011, the FBI filed a report labeling Juggalos–ICP fans–as a “a loosely organized hybrid gang.” ICP have sued once before, but now they’re bringing out […]
Everyone knows the New York Post is not a paper that defines itself by its accuracy. It’s a tabloid prone to frequent misreporting and so it’s not surprising that their gossip section is also inept at getting things right. But even by Page Six’s lowly standards, the item on Bill De Blasio published earlier this […]
Though Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan for medical cannabis legalization is a step in the right direction, it isn’t enough to get suffering New Yorkers the treatment they need, according to the weed advocacy group Marijuana Policy Project. Cuomo’s plan, which he will announce in his State of the State address this afternoon, calls for weed […]
China’s authorities considers heavy internet use a clinical condition. To combat what they think is a critical epidemic and the downfall of its youth, the government sets up special treatment facilities to cure teenagers, to take them out of their online life into the presumably healthier “real” life with some very “unorthodox psychological sessions.” The […]
Several bus stops along the Bronx’s Southern Boulevard will become impromptu listening spaces under a plan approved by Robert Steel, Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for economic development. The new stations, proposed by the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation and designed by the Design Trust for Public Space, will play music that nods to the Bronx’s cultural history […]
Artist Ben Grosser’s Computers Watching Movies shows what “a computational system sees” when it watches films. Presented as a series of temporal sketches and videos, Grosser tracks the system’s “eye” movement to propose a contrast between our human “culturally-developed ways of looking” and computational watching. It was pretty fascinating seeing the lines appear, tracking a trail from across […]
